School: An Cnoc (B.) (roll number 16122)

Location:
Knock, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0108, Page 249

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  1. In the olden times food was different than it is now. There were three meals eaten a day. The breakfast, dinner, and the supper. They used to have potatoes for the breakfast, and a sauspan of butter-milk. For the dinner oat-cakes or potato cakes and a drink of black-tea, and for supper poridge and new milk. They used to have three kinds of bread oat-meal bread, yellow-meal bread, and boxty bread. They did not eat much meat. It was fish they mostly eat. In the olden
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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James O' Connell
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    William Rachford
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    45
    Address
    Cloonturnaun, Co. Mayo